This uprising of mine : game conventions, cultural memory and civilian experience of war in Polish games

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title:	This uprising of mine : game conventions, cultural memory and civilian experience of war in Polish games
author:	Sterczewski Piotr
journal title:	Game Studies
volume:	16
issue:	2
date of publication :	2016
pages:	[1-20]
ISSN:	1604-7982
URL:	http://gamestudies.org/1602/articles/sterczewski
date accessed:	2017-02-24
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	The article is an analysis of three Polish games depicting the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - Uprising44: The Silent Shadows (DMD Enterprise, 2012), Little Insurgents (Miłuński, 2009) and Enemy Front (CI Games, 2014b). The focus of the study is the interplay between conventional game-design solutions employed in these titles and dominant discourses of Polish cultural memory used and potentially reinforced by them. Discourses of the games show complex tensions between the inclusion of tragic historical themes and heroic or light-hearted narrative and gameplay. The article uses representations of civilian experiences of war as a key to examine how games expose or conceal potentially problematic content and reinforce or undermine a "mnemonic hegemony" related to the Warsaw Uprising.
keywords in English:	cultural memory Little Insurgents, Enemy Front, war, civilian experience, Warsaw Uprising, Poland, Uprising44: The Silent Shadows, Little Insurgents, Enemy Front
number of pulisher's sheets:	1,7
affiliation:	Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej : Instytut Sztuk Audiowizualnych
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper

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